@@CURSOR_ROWS
Returns the number of qualifying rows currently in the last cursor opened on the connection. To improve performance, MicrosoftÃ‚Â® SQL ServerÃ¢â€žÂ¢ can populate large keyset and static cursors asynchronously. @@CURSOR_ROWS can be called to determine that the number of the rows that qualify for a cursor are retrieved at the time @@CURSOR_ROWS is called.

Return value Description
-m The cursor is populated asynchronously. The value returned (-m) is the number of rows currently in the keyset.
-1 The cursor is dynamic. Because dynamic cursors reflect all changes, the number of rows that qualify for the cursor is constantly changing. It can never be definitely stated that all qualified rows have been retrieved.
0 No cursors have been opened, no rows qualified for the last opened cursor, or the last-opened cursor is closed or deallocated.
n The cursor is fully populated. The value returned (n) is the total number of rows in the cursor.

Syntax
@@CURSOR_ROWS

Return Types
integer

Remarks
The number returned by @@CURSOR_ROWS is negative if the last cursor was opened asynchronously. Keyset-driver or static cursors are opened asynchronously if the value for sp_configure cursor threshold is greater than 0, and the number of rows in the cursor result set is greater than the cursor threshold.

Examples
This example declares a cursor and uses SELECT to display the value of @@CURSOR_ROWS. The setting has a value of 0 before the cursor is opened, and a value of -1 to indicate that the cursor keyset is populated asynchronously.

Defines a cursor that makes a temporary copy of the data to be used by the cursor. All requests to the cursor are answered from this temporary table in tempdb; therefore, modifications made to base tables are not reflected in the data returned by fetches made to this cursor, and this cursor does not allow modifications.

Remarks
The number returned by @@CURSOR_ROWS is negative if the last cursor was opened asynchronously. Keyset-driver or static cursors are opened asynchronously if the value for sp_configure cursor threshold is greater than 0, and the number of rows in the cursor result set is greater than the cursor threshold.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by benwilson</i><br /><br />why not just use <br />WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 ???<br /><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"><br /><br />Hi ben @@fetch_status is useful when we process the recordset row by row till the fetch status is 0.<br />But srini needs the use of @@cursor_rows which keeps the no of rows currently in cursor opened.<br />So srini the values depends on the cursor you have opened if it is dynamic it will not populate the no of rows but if static then the recordsetset is fully populated and will return the no of qualifying rows which you can use as u want.[<img src='/community/emoticons/emotion-1.gif' alt='' />]